Re: Re: COM and Word, how?

Can you open Word in ActiveState Perl or some other app? (Besides VBA.) It may be a problem with your word COM settings. -- Scott Carr OpenOffice.org Documentation Maintainer http://documentation.openoffice.org/ Quoting Dallas Thunder <dallas@php.net>: > Well, this script works fine on my machine. Windows XP w/ Office XP, PHP > 4.2.3. > > "Michelle" <michelledebeer@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:20020902171132.91711.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > I am new to COM and tried an example today (See bottom of post) > > > > When I execute the code, I get is an error message and if I look in the > Task > > Manager, there is a WINWORD.EXE process running, which I can't end. Every > > time I reload the page, a new winword is started... > > > > How should PHP.ini be set for me to use COM Objects? > > > > --------------------------------- > > Error message: > > Warning: Unable to obtain IDispatch interface for CLSID > > {000209FF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}: The message filter indicated that > > the application is busy. in d:\inetpub\wwwroot\incmill\ver2\readfile.php > on > > line 2 > > Unable to instantiate word > > > > Setup: > > Windows 2000 Professional > > PHP 4.2.1 > > Office 2000 > > > > PHP.ini > > COM values: > > Directive, Local Value, Master Value > > com.allow_dcom, Off, Off > > com.autoregister_casesensitive, On, On > > com.autoregister_typelib, Off, Off > > com.autoregister_verbose, Off, Off > > com.typelib_file, no value, no value > > > > > > Code: > > $word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate Word"); > > print "Loaded Word, version {$word->Version}<BR>"; > > $word->Visible = 1; > > $word->Documents->Add(); > > $word->Selection->TypeText("This is a test..."); > > $word->Documents[1]->SaveAs("Useless test.doc"); > > $word->Quit(); > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/